Illinois quotes

Discover inspiring quotes about the Prairie State with our collection of Illinois-themed phrases and sayings. Explore the best quotes about Illinois today!

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

- Abraham Lincoln

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

- Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

- Abraham Lincoln

Life is hard but so very beautiful.

- Abraham Lincoln

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

- Abraham Lincoln

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

- Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

- Abraham Lincoln

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

- Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

- Abraham Lincoln

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

- Abraham Lincoln

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

- Abraham Lincoln

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

- Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

- Abraham Lincoln